Massive amounts of talents, music and ideas…..the AM air waves were filled with the Top 100 hits! Today the AM and FM radios are no longer the keepers of the music, it’s all fragmented.
@@edmundcharles5278I grew up in the sixties and there was so many great talent in not just music but the fight game the ballplayer's in every sport.So glad to have seen it all.
We had no idea how fortunate we were to have grown up with this exceptionally artistic music. But sadly, we are all too aware that we will never experience this again in our lifetime. Immerse yourself in it and enjoy it while you can.
@@jamesmathews1841 yes with the technology of today it’s so much easier to play what you want when you want it. Think of the World War Two generation. When they came back from the war there was about 10 years before rock and roll replaced the big bands . Then where could they find THEIR music ? Not on the car radio it was all our kind of music.
Same as you I don't listen to any music after 1990 not through snobbery but nothing is a patch on the older music Tom Jones was NO1 on the day of my birth with it's not unusual
@@daveearles5472 yes you had Motown , the British Invasion and Surf Music . Add to that groups like the Grass Roots, credence, Association and many more and you get a decade UNSURPASSED
We were so spoiled back then and didn't know it. The music today is nothing, absolutely nothing compared to the 60's. The talent pool was over-flowing in 1965.
13 years old , coming into my teens , while some of historys greatest songs were being written !!!! Sad that todays children will never be able to experience life unfolding like it did then !!!!
They do and it's as special to them as our time was to us. We're all sentimental about music from our formative years. I do love our music from the 60s and 70s.
1965 certainly was a amazing 😻 time for music 🎼. The Beatles,Stones, Bob Dylan, had several songs going up the charts. What Bob Dylan sang was true because “Times are a Changin” of course they were. Those were the times of good music. The music of 1965 didn’t have profanity in them like nowadays, because the other day I heard kids singing a song with cus words in it and they didn’t care they were out in public. Some of those songs are demeaning to women. The songs of 1965 doesn’t have those type of lyrics in their songs. That was the time of good 👍 clean 🧼 music 🎼. We know those times aren’t coming back, and thanks for sharing these wonderful songs with us.
Ciao. USMC 64--68. Tuesday March 9TH 1965. 19 years old and getting off the plane at Tan san noot Air Force Base Vietnam. And as for the rest. Well I'm sure everyone already knows. But I still remember and love these great old songs. I'm very proud to have been a part of this generation. Despite the negative things that were happening, it was still an OK time.
What great music we had! My family was on vacation the summer of 1965 and I went to our cabin to put on my bathing suit. No one was there, but the TV was on and I heard this guy singing and stopped to see who it was. It was Tom Jones, and at that moment I realized I was not a little girl anymore. I remember thinking, "So this is what they're talking about!". I have loved him ever since.
I graduated HS in 1965. Remember all of these with the exception of a few non English ones. The 60's were a great time to be alive but so were the 70's thru 2020's. Hope for a few more. I do enjoy listening to the old songs sitting on my back deck while smoking a good cigar with a strong cup of coffee. Life is good.
I also graduated from high school in 1965 in Sydney, Australia. This collection of songs from then brought me to tears. A wonderful time. Life was good (and still is, except for the music of today which will not be remembered as these hits were).
Fully agree this decade produced the best music with great lyrics,, haunting melody & rhythm and yes good beat too. We grew up listening to the singers like Nancy Sinatra, Petula Clark, Cliff Richard, Conny Francis. Groups like The Shadows, The Ventures , The Seekers and of course The Beatles. Thank you ' The Sixties'
I might push the ten year window up to 1965 to 1975. But definitely agree, somewhere from the mid 60’s to mid 70’s is the best 10 years of music. Certainly better than just saying the 60’s or 70’s were the best.
I was only 3yrs old in 1965 and know most of these songs. I’m so glad my parents appreciated music. These songs made me want to be a musician. And I am truly grateful to be. 🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽 I spoke too soon, I know all of these songs. lol
@@Thadmotor1044. They didn’t play those foreign language songs on the a.m. stations I listened to back then . WLS, Chicago, and the one in NYC, what were its call letters. I can’t remember… 12:50
And to think, all this music was crammed into one year. I turned 16 that summer. It was good to be alive, listening to KACY in Oxnard, California. “K-A-C-Y! 1520!” Still remember the radio jingle.
@@jeffhale2982 how about: wLS, in Chicago. This was the most popular radio station from Canada to Louisiana. Every night teenagers listened to Ron Riley and Art Roberts play the most popular songs of the day. I can tell you exactly where I was the first time I heard the Righteous Brothers, Petula Clark, The Buckinghams, Grassroots, etc.
_"Like a Rolling Stone"_ has regularly been voted the best rock n roll song ever. I love that song, _"Downtown", "Get Off of my Cloud", "I Can't Get No Satisfaction", "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away ",_ The Righteous Brothers, 4Tops, Temptations, _"Eve of Destruction", "Turn Turn Turn", "Mr Tambourine Man"_
And somewhere in the past I heard somebody's analysis that determined that "My Girl" by the Temptations was the most perfect popular song. I don't remember the time frame considered, or the criteria used. But as good as the Temps are ('scuse me -- I just took a break to listen to "Ball Of Confusion"), it's the Four Tops, with the one and only LEVI STUBBS! on lead vocals, that win me over.
I am sooo glad I grew up in the sixties! I witnessed the invention of true music. It remains relevant to this day and will forever be timeless. What the kids today call music is garbage thrown at them by talentless nobodies who don’t have a creative bone in their body nor have they ever had an original musical idea.
Young people and adults under 48 today are much less intelligent than those of us who were born before 1976 - that's why people under 48 and especially young people today accept the rubbish music that came out after 1980. In our time there were also many bad songs, but they were less successful.
Listening to this list was just like snapping on the car radio to AM once again. FM was just getting started but the car was too old for such a thing. Our parents were still listening to Bing Crosby, Ed Ames, the instrumentals on the old console radio/record player that took up half the living room. We had our transistor 9 volt radios and ear plugs to listen to our stuff. Good times! Best of times. I have always analyzed that things for us was really good then the Viet Nam war happened and everything changed and not for the better. But, through it all, music was there to keep us company. It is a shame that these newer generations will never experience the innocent, fun times we had as kids. I still cherish the music of the late 50's, 60's and 70's. Thank you, Chrizly for bringing back the memories!
I came to America Jan.1960 the time that all the great music was on the radio,it was the first thing I fell in love with,the music and the groups,I learned lots of English just listening,today I’m 79 and still listen to oldies ,I have over a thousand LPs and all the beattles,my daughter has bids on it lol god bless the 🇺🇸
Running the creeks and streets of Austin with my transistor radio...it was almost Heaven. Now none of what I knew is left and it is time for me to go home in the sky. I sure miss the old hill country!
This was the year that I graduated from high school, and hearing these songs brings back so many memories. It seems like just yesterday. Oh, where does the time go? Thanks to the contributor of this wonderful collection of songs.
I was 14 in 65 and remember all these great songs. Many years later I was employed in Environmental Health and Safety and “Rescue Me” was played (loudly) at the end of every search and rescue training while we were catching our breath and guzzling water. Every time I hear that song I remember those days, love that memory.
Pet Clark Definitely Downtown!!!❤ Two left out that hit no. for about a week late in the year: Lovers Concerto- Toys. And Lightning Strikes by Lou Christie.
Diese Zeiten waren der Silur der Musikgeschichte, der Grundstein für alles was danach aufgebaut wurde. 1965 war ein Jahr vor meiner Geburt und „Turn, Turn, Turn“ von den Byrds, diese Band und viele aus dem Stil- Umfeld gehört zu den schönsten Songs die ich je gehört habe. Als Jugendlicher der 1980er später bekam ich noch die letzten Stücke von ELO, Slade oder The WHO mit, die frühere Qualität wurde aber nie mehr erreicht, Erinnerungen hin oder her, diese Musik hatte Seele. Sicher gibt es heute noch schöne Stimmen, Kreativität und Talente aber keinen Zauber mehr. Pete Townsend sagte mal in einem Interview daß er seine besten Kompositionen im Rausch geschrieben hat,,ob das der Schlüssel ins Zauberreich war ? Diese Stücke sind der Joint für‘s Ohr, keiner der die hinein läßt braucht mehr Alk und Zigaretten oder Hasch. Danke für die die schöne Inspiration nun nach vielen Langfassungen zu suchen.
Graduated in 65! Lots of great songs! Early growing up in north jersey (now south jersey), lived nexxt town over from 4 Seasons music studio, one town away from home of Yangee Great Yogi Berra! Many great singers, groups came from Jersey! Happy dats, memories, THANK YOU!!
I was 9 years old in 1965 and had a brother that was 5 years older! This certainly takes me back. Not to mention the fabulous music from back then. Today's music is nothing compared the talent from that era.
I was only eight at the time, but my older sisters listened to a lot of this music on the radio and bought lots of records. Thanks for these great memories.
Some excellent choices, especially "Eve of destruction", which was my favourite record of that year😂. The Kinks " See my Friends", The Rainbows "Balla Balla", The Lords " Poor Boy", some Yardbirds, Small Faces or Spencer Davis would have fitted in nicely or?
Cool l was born in Jan. 1960 ! I wouldn't trade my life growing up during the 1960's for any other time. From black and white to color, rock n roll into the Beatles and then... the 70's, what else can be said. You could see the music and hear the colors it was fabulous. 🌎☮️❤️
Oh, my word what a year. such a variety of wonderful songs, from Roger Miller's 50s-style "King Of The Road" to peak Beatles with the wonderful "I Feel Fine", and everything in between, and they nearly all still sound great today.
Wow, I was only seven years old when those great song hit the air waves. Boss radio 93 KHJ, Los Angeles. Now I'm 66 years old and i still rock out on those songs. Love being a Baby Boomer.😄
Great ....Happy Days.. Great Peace ...& LOVE.. Save water Bath with a friend Far out man.. Carefree days..No internet No mobiles..NO everyday stabbings. NO shootings.. Police had respect from everybody THEN.. You could rely on their professionalism..
G'day to you! Thanks for this , all Brilliant in there own way, I am glad I grew up in the UK in this Era, I was 15 at the time, Sadly there will never be this Phenomenal Sound ever again! Perth West Aust.
07.19.2024 I was thinking #1 would be Lulu's "To Sir With Love"; but looked up & see it was released 2 years later in 1967. I love how the bands; especially the Motown bands, such as The Four Tops or The Temptations, etc mostly dressed alike & so stylish & had the same movements/gestures. So cool. 👊
That's so funny that Downtown is no. 1! It was one of only about three of four songs from the mid-60s that stuck in my head when I was in the car at around age 5 (probably on vacation). I loved it then, love it now! -- Though I love the Beatles infinitely more! ;)
The year I was born. A fabulous year for music. The Stones' "Satisfaction" is my favorite ever song. Yet the UK number one on the day was the excruciatingly bad Crying in the Chapel by Elvis.
Ohhhhh man, is was greath those days. Never a dull moment, what greath musicians back then. I am 75 now and stil listen to the stones, small faces, hollies, beatles the searchers, otis redding ect. ect.
I didn’t hear any of these songs ( except maybe Sunny) until years later, by 1966-67 I heard that Tijuana Brass - because I was strictly brought up on classical music, which for me lasts forever … 😊😊😊
I am really impressed many of these songs were versioned decades later and were great hits again and many more are to come for sure...great old hits defenitely....
I was Seven turning Eight in 1965, and I had two older sisters, seven older female cousin's & one older Male cousin that went into the service USN in 68-72 serving Three tours in the Tonkin Gulf with the Seventh US Fleet carrier's. But Man O Man was our Music 🎵🎶 Great Back then? Thanks for the Trip back in Time.
